MFD2017

Wednesdays 12h00 FIL Seminar Room

Methods for
Dummies (MfD) is a course taught by its participants, and aims to
give a basic introduction to human brain imaging analysis methods,
focusing on fMRI and M/EEG. The course is open to anyone who is
willing to commit to giving at least one of the lectures of the
course. Don't worry if you don't know much yet, you'll get help
preparing your lecture!

Slides from
previous years are all online for you to use, you will present in
pairs of two, and there will be a resident expert assigned to you
to help you figure out how best to explain and demonstrate your
analysis method. You will be given the opportunity to ask them
questions and rehearse your presentation with them and on the day
of your lecture they will be there to (help you) answer questions.

Meetings
are held on Wednesday afternoons from 12.00 - 13.00 in the 4th
Floor Seminar Room at 12 Queen Square, FIL, UCL.

The MfD
course is a unique opportunity to learn from and with your peers
about analysis methods used and developed at the FIL.

The great
thing about the course and the reason for its continued popularity
is that it is taught by its participants. This means that if you
are willing to commit to giving a lecture, you will be returned
with an excellent grounding in a range of analysis methods, the
opportunity to explore topics that particularly interests you in
more depth and get answers to basic questions of practical
importance for you. Furthermore, the course aims to provide
demonstrations of how to use the relevant SPM functions so you
will be able to understand and
use them.

See one - Do
one - Teach one.

Bonus
reasons to sign up: cake and a signed certificate stating that you
gave a lecture (and its topic) at the end of the course.

What
does it involve?

Giving a
short (~20 minute) presentation along with a partner on a topic of
your choice. There will be an expert at hand to help you and you
are not expected to know or have used the method before. The most
important thing is that once you commit to giving a talk you don't
cancel last minute. That way, everyone gets the most out of it.
Each talk will be 45 min + time for questions. Generally it should
introduce the relevant theory followed by a practical step-by-step
walk through the SPM12 interface.

The aim is
to make these topics understandable to people like yourselves, who
may know very little about statistics, neuro-imaging or SPM.
You're not trying to teach experts. The environment is very
friendly and informal so there is nothing to fear!